Most adults can remember when taking a writing test meant sitting down with a paper and pencil, then scribbling out sentences and erasing mistakes until the time ran out. For many students today, ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

On standardized tests, computers have begun to grade, not just multiple-choice questions but even student writing such essays. Grading software evaluates essays about as well as a human on the kinds ...

Today, teachers of English are faced with the problem of developing new vantage points from which to consider the use of computers in writing programs, writing classrooms, and individual writing ...

“Your methods of compiling are pretty inefficient,” said the student, who had been sitting quietly in the back of the college classroom, to the guest lecturer, during question time. Xtine Burrough, an ...

DECATUR – A Google search of “cursive and schools” returns conflicting results. About half the stories say that cursive is coming back, and the other half say it's been dropped from curricula as old ...

Many people helped my daughter grow as a writer: My husband and I nurtured her reading and took her on adventures. A decade’s worth of teachers coached her on writing and challenged her thinking.

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.

When someone is paralyzed from the neck down, it goes without saying that they can no longer write words out by hand. They can still think about doing so, though, and those thoughts could allow them ...